Removed a tee on a 2" aqua line. Line sprung back at the injured breaking / chipping a front tooth.
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Showing all 4Employee was carrying 3 drill steels bound together, as they walked through a known slick area, they transitioned between solid floor and mud which caused them to slip and fall with steels in hand, they reached back with right hand to break their fall, crushing right pinky finger.
Employee was cleaning up a belt splice area and employee was lowering the rollout of the belt core. Hook came off end and the core fell which caused injury to their pinky finger
Unloading Richwood impact clusters off the cookie sheet of an M2 shield hauler. Unloaded two cluster without incident where one man would push and the other would pull. The injured pulled the third cluster into a stationary cluster, smashing EE's finger between the two. EE sustained a small fracture in the tip of EE's right middle finger. The wound required 8 sutures to close.